Fire-escape



(No Model.)

F. SHIGKLE.. PIRE ESCAPE.

No. 312,910. Paten-ted Feb. 24, 1885.

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Fl RE-ESCAPE.

SECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,910, dated February 24, 1885.

Application filed June 9, 1894.

To (/,ZZ wwm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SHICKLE, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a neW- and usel'ul Improvement in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure lis a front elevation of the improved fire-escape in position, the building-front being shown in broken lines; Fig. 2, a front elevation, upon an enlarged scale, ofthe escape; Fig. 3, a side elevation' ot' the escape, the buildingfront being shown in vertical section; and Fig. 4,a horizontal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts. y

The present invention is an improvement in that class of re-escapes having a ladder adapted to be moved along the building front and sides. y

The improvement relates to the const-ruction ot' the ladder and to the means by which it is attached and adjusted upon the building.

A represents the ladder.

B represents a rail attached by means of brackets, such as b, to the building O at or toward its top.

The ladder consists ot a tube, a, and the rounds c', the tube being arranged centrally in the ladder, and serving both to support the rounds and as a means by which a stream ot' water can be conducted upward onto the building. The ladder, by means of the hanger D and pulley E, is suspended upon the rail B, and adapted to be moved thereupon.

The mechanism for moving the ladder along the building-front is as follows: A rope or chain, F, passes around the sheaves (t2 a? and the pulley G. This lastnamed pulley is at- (No model.)

ing the rope or chain F the pulley E can be rotated, and according to the direction in which it is rotated is the ladder moved along the building-front. To enable the ladder to be turned around, it is at a swiveled to the upper portier, a4. Above the point at which the ladder is swiveled an extension, c5, leads outward and upward, and then inward, if desired, to enable the stream of Water to be conducted directly onto the roofl of the building, and substantially as indicated in Fig. 3. The lower part, a, of the ladder can thus be turned around without affecting the position ot' the extension a". The entire device can also be swung or inclined or tilted into various positions with relation to the buildingfront without detaching it from the rail B.

I claim- 1. The combination of a ladder suspended from a pulley mounted on a rail, and provided with gears, and an endless rope or cable, with p a central tube having rounds projecting from both sides of the said tube, as described.

2. The combination ofa swiveled tube having rounds a secured to it, with rolling suspension mechanism, and an endless rope or cable for actuating' the same, substantially as described.

3. The combination ofthe rail B, the hanger D, and the ladder A, swiveled at ed, as and for the purpose described.

Vitne-ss my hand.

FREDERICK SIJIIOKLE.

XVitnesses:

CHAs. D. MOODY, Cona E. HUNT. 

